Bruce Trigger

Bruce Graham Trigger , OC , OQ , FRSC (born June 18, 1937 in Preston , † December 1, 2006 ) was a Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist .

Bruce Trigger graduated from Yale University . Here he received his doctorate in 1964 and initially dealt with Old Nubian culture. After teaching for a year at Northwestern University , he went to the Anthropological Institute at McGill University in Montréal . Here he became known for his two-volume study on the Hurons , The Children of Aataentsic (1976). In recognition of this work, he even became an honorary member of the Huron-Wendat Nation .

He gained international fame through his book A History of Archaeological Thought (1989), in which he dealt with the theory and fundamentals of archeology . With his last book Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study (2003) he showed himself to be an important comparative archaeologist . Here he presented differences and similarities between prehistoric and ancient cultures such as those of ancient Egypt , Mesopotamia , Latin America or pre-colonial Africa.

Trigger has received multiple honors and awards. In 2003 the Society for American Archeology dedicated an event to the work of Triggers. In 2001 he became officer of the Ordre national du Québec , two years later of the Order of Canada . He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada , where he was awarded the Innis-Gérin Medal in 1985. In 1991 he received the Prix ​​Léon-Gérin .

Fonts

• History and Settlement in Lower Nubia . New Haven: Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 1965.
• The Late Nubian Settlement at Arminna West . New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1965.
• Beyond History: The Methods of Prehistory . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
• The Huron: Farmers of the North . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, revised edition, 1990.
• The Impact of Europeans on Huronia . Toronto: The Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1969.
• The Meroitic Funerary Inscriptions from Arminna West . New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1970.
• (with JF Pendergast) Cartier's Hochelaga and the Dawson Site . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1972.
• The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976.
• Nubia Under the Pharaohs . ( Ancient Peoples and Places ) London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
• Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978 (US edition New York: Columbia University Press).
• Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15 . Northeast, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
• Gordon Childe: Revolutions in Archeology . London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
• (with BJ Kemp, D. O'Connor, and AB Lloyd) Ancient Egypt: A Social History . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
• Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Revisited . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985.
• A History of Archaeological Thought . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Early Civilizations: Ancient Egypt in Context . New York: Columbia, 1993.
• The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas [vol. I] . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Sociocultural Evolution: Calculation and Contingency . Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
• Artifacts and Ideas: Essays in Archeology . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.
• Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Web links

• Obituary in Times online (Engl.)
• Honoring Bruce Trigger